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Discussion on: On GUI-shaming and a mountain of hot takes

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Chris James

I am generally a CLI person but that's mainly out of habit and familiarity more than anything

I find it interesting how people go on and on and about how more "efficient" one can be with git for example on the command line compared to a GUI

Software development isn't a race.

What's the difference between someone who can commit some new code and push it in the CLI in ~2 seconds vs a GUI user in ~10 seconds. Nothing, who cares?

There's much bigger fish to fry.

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rhymes

Definitely, also git has a terrible UI on the command line that we all use aliases anyway so... +1 for GUIs ✌🏾

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Alain Van Hout

There also the difference between 'feeling efficient' and 'being efficient'. With the command line, you can fire of lots of commands in quick succession. For a decent GUI, the same required click-click-click, done. Though, as you say, efficiency in infrequent tasks is mostly irrelevant.